Books
Animal midrash
Jewish scholar Laura Duhan-Kaplan opens our eyes to biblical birds, insects, and mammals.
Billy Graham’s transatlantic brand
America’s pastor stepped into a historical moment framed by the Cold War and secularization.
We need to talk about climate change
Scientist Katharine Hayhoe recommends focusing on common ground and hope.
Maggie Nelson finds freedom in the emphatic middle
Her new essay collection examines how Americans thread the needle between care and constraint.
How Christena Cleveland walked away from “whitemalegod”
The social psychologist went on a revolutionary pilgrimage in search of the sacred Black feminine.
Reckoning with the careless ableism of the church
Amy Kenny’s call for disability justice leads with righteous anger but offers grace.
The world through Niebuhr’s eyes
38 scholars weigh in on Reinhold Niebuhr’s life and times, his allies and adversaries, his theology and ethics
How Christians in Korea helped build American evangelicalism
Helen Jin Kim exhumes the Korean roots of three major evangelical organizations, all present at a 1973 Billy Graham rally in Seoul.
Luke Timothy Johnson’s scholarly life
The prolific biblical scholar offers an engaging account of his career—and of the spiritual journey that helped shape it.
Climate change requires adaptive faith
Debra Rienstra urges Christians to create spaces of transition and new growth wherever we are.
Joel Agee’s novel of childhood wonder and terror
Fantastical things surround six-year-olds everywhere.
Joy Harjo gives words to the poet warriors who were her ancestors
The Indigenous writer’s new memoir understands memory as counsel and ritual as the potency of love.
The Bible’s imprints on US politics are noticeably masculine
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza wants us to reform our collective subconscious.
A White woman takes on the problem of nice White ladies
Sociologist Jessie Daniels reckons with the dangerous implications of the person she was raised to be.
Brian McLaren offers 10 solid reasons to abandon Christianity
And 10 reasons to stay.
Who’s doing our dirty work?
Eyal Press looks inside the daily lives of prison workers, drone warriors, and meatpackers.
Does Catholic higher ed have to sell its soul?
A truly Catholic university, says James Heft, steers a course between secularization and insularity.
Dethroning the canonical Paul
Cavan Concannon believes that the apostle’s writings belong in the latrine.
Is it possible to tell the complete history of libraries?
Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen try in their impressive but Eurocentric volume.
An ode to Daniel Berrigan
Bill Wylie-Kellerman’s patchwork of poetry, prophecy, and prose reads like a modern Gospel.